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Nico Fernandez TOK - Coggle Diagram
Nico Fernandez TOK
Ways of Knowing
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Reason
Deductive Reasoning (Proof from 2 or more premises) - can be valid but doesn't necessarily mean true
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Memory
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relationship between memories and experiences --> more distant, more unclear a memory becomes
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Emotion
Psychologist Paul Ekman 'Outsmart Evolution' (naturalistic emotion vs social constructionist perspective)
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Areas of Knowledge
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Mathematics
Godel's Incompleteness Theorem: debate as to whether or not mathematics was discovered or invented? (Relates to axioms - axiom is the universally agreed-upon principle (building blocks of maths))
e.g. axiom - two +ve numbers added together will always make a +ve whole number)
Golden Ratio: mathematics discovered (a way to explain the world around us)
Golden ratio is used to prove beauty using a mathematical method
Relationship between beauty / art and mathematics: is there a geometrical equation for facial symmetry / beauty?
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History
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David Irwing Trial (Defamation): Holocaust Denier and thinking about historical 'fact' and 'fiction'
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